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Book/Book Chapter 
The chemistry of Lucrezia Borgia et al. 
Cobb, C 
2013 
Yes 
ACS Symposium Series
ISSN: 0097-6156
EISSN: 1947-5918 
Characters in Chemistry: A Celebration of the Humanity of Chemistry 
1136 
61-72 
WOS:000320971100005 
According to folklore, poison was a tool of statecraft for women in power during the European Renaissance. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the materials and techniques that might have been available to these women, as well as ways in which these poisons may have been deployed. It is concluded that there is no irrefutable evidence that the poisonings discussed herein occurred, but arsenic was probably the most reliable and flexible poison available to them, and that techniques existed at the time to engineer arsenic poisons for various political needs. 
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